## Boundedness of global solutions for nonlinear parabolic equations involving gradient blow-up phenomena.(English)Zbl 1072.35098

The paper deals with the Cauchy–Dirichlet problem for one-dimensional semilinear parabolic equations with a gradient nonlinearity of the form \left\{\begin{align*}{& u_t=u_{xx}+|u_x|^p,\quad t>0,\ 0<x<1,\cr & u(t,0)=0,\quad u(t,1)=M,\qquad t>0,\cr & u(0,x)=u_0(x),\qquad 0<x<1,\cr }\end{align*}\right. where $$p>2,$$ $$M\geq0$$ and $$u_0\in X:=\{v\in C^1[0,1]\colon\;v(0)=0,\;v(1)=M\}.$$
The authors provide a complete classification of large time behaviour of the classical solutions $$u.$$ Precisely, either the space derivative $$u_x$$ blows up in a finite time with $$u$$ itself remaining bounded, or $$u$$ is global and converges in $$C^1$$-norm to the unique steady state. The main difficulty concerns the proof of $$C^1$$-boundedness of all global solutions, and in avoinding it the authors compute a nontrivial Lyapunov functional by carrying out a method introduced by T. Zelenyak. After deriving precise estimates on the solutions and on the Lyapunov functional, they argue by contradiction by showing that any $$C^1$$ unbounded global solution should converge to a singular stationary solution, which does not exist.

### MSC:

 35K60 Nonlinear initial, boundary and initial-boundary value problems for linear parabolic equations 35K65 Degenerate parabolic equations 35B45 A priori estimates in context of PDEs
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